Re: [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutilsa version to 2.23

Nick Desaulniers
2020-03-23T20:51:21Z

> The currently minimum-supported binutils version 2.21 has the problem of
> promoting symbols which are defined outside of a section into absolute.
> According to Arvind:
>
> binutils-2.21 and -2.22. An x86-64 defconfig will fail with
> Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: _etext
> and after fixing that one, with
> Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: __end_of_kernel_reserve
>
> Those two versions of binutils have a bug when it comes to handling
> symbols defined outside of a section and binutils 2.23 has the proper
> fix, see: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/binutils/2012-06/msg00155.html
>
> Therefore, up to the fixed version directly, skipping the broken ones.
>
> Currently shipping distros already have the fixed binutils version so
> there should be no breakage resulting from this.
>
> For more details about the whole thing, see the thread in Link.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110202349.1881840-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu

Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>